Undergarment.



M. SQERLANGER- UNDBBGABMENT.

arrmomron Hun rams, 1914.

Luoy'm.

WITNESSES A TTOR/VEYS To all whom it may concern:

miLrou s. ERLANGER, or

NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE B. V. D. COMRA NY, A

CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

UNDERGARMENT.

' specification of Letters Patent. I Application filed February a, 1914. .Serial No. 816,885. Y

' Patented Sept. 15, 1914.

Be it known that I, MILTON S. ERLANGER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Undergarments, of which the following. is a specification.

My invention relates to undergarments and more particularly to that type of such 1garments commonly known as union suits and as for its ob ect to improve the crotch construct-ion thereof. In union suits of the kind to which the present invention relates numerous attempts have been made to improve the crotch construction, all of which have resulted in a garment, either closed in the crotch with the posterior opening running down into one of the legs or a arment entirely open in the crotch and provided with fasteningdevices to maintain the crotch portion of the garment in a closed conditlon or in which the trunklength of a garment of a given size is disturbed in order to provide garment openings of the required dimensions, this latter structure resulting in a dropping of the crotch and a consequent uncomfortable bunchiug of the material at said crotch when the garment is worn. My

improvement overcomes all of these objectionable features and provides a garment in which a portion of the fabric composing the crotch portion of the undergarment Wlll at all times be interposed between the person of the wearer and his outer garments, thus providing all the advantages of the so-called closed crotch constructions.

My invention further avoids the necessity for using fastening devices to maintain. the crotch portion of the garment in an efi'ective position and also maintains the trunk length.

in each givensize of garment at the recognized most effective standard to secure a per-' wearer all as will be explained in detail in' the description hereinafter. 1

In the drawings which illustrate an ex ample of my invention, Figure l is a fr n view of the garment and Fig. 2 is a detail rear view thereof. f

Referring to said drawings A represents the left leg and B the right leg both of which are connected in the neighborhood of the waist line with the body C. the illustration showing a waist band D of relatively elastic material located between the legs A and B and thebody O and which may be omitted as it forms no part of the present invention. 7

The garment at the front is open and is provided with hems E and F 'extending lengthwise of and forming the edges of said front opening and provided respectively with button holes E and buttons .F where- I by the garment is closed at the front. The hem E at its lower end overlaps the lower end of the hem F and is secured thereto by transverse stitches G and "G the former being located approximately in line with the leg seam A and the latter being located at a short distance above this point. It will thus ,be seen that the front opening extends from the stitches G to the'neck of the garment and that the' fabric forming the edges of said front opening is permanently united 1n the crotch as clearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The inner edge B of the right leg B is free throughout substantially its entire length and extends from the waist line at the rear of the garment downwardly and toward the front of the garment and then upwardly at the front and is united with the hem F ata point considerably above the crotch and desi drawings as H. A fla has its one edge secured by stitches to the inner edge of the left le A from a point near the waist line to the stitches G at the crotch portion of the garment and then extends transversely parallel with said stitches which pass throughsaid flap I and secure the same 111 the garment at this point. The said edge of said flap is continued up at the front of the garment to a point above the crotch and lower end of the front opening and is fastened to the button hem F at J'. .The upper front end'iof said flap' l, is secured in the garment by a row of stitches K which extend downwardly at an incline to the butated on the dropped to secure a. posterior opening of inton hem F or to the front opening of the i garment and are located in the neighborhood of the point H at which the inner edge of the leg B becomes united with theheinF. The opposite edge of said flap I is free from a point near the Waist region of the garment at the-rear-tothe lower end of the row of stitches K at the front and'i'nthe normal position of the garment when worn over.- laps the inner edge of the right leg B. I I L If desired, a button hole L having a suit ably-locatedcooperating'button ma be proto a point aboveth"crotchlat thefront of' the garment so'r 'that the front opening of 'thmgarment-ahdsaid posterior opening ex- I tend beyond each other at the front" as clearlywshownsidn Fag. .fl..tof: xthe draw1;

ings. In this manner an undergarmenti 1s provided which is provided with a "front opening of increased dimensions to permit the garment. to be more read- 1ly put on' and taken oif-thanordinary.

v garments and in'which a posterior opening ofmaximum dimensions 1s secured so as to permit a comfortable adjustment of the garment in all positions of, the wearer. The inchned stitches K permit a maximum spread ing of the garment to open the posterior,

opening during a sitting position of the wearer, this spreading being: possible from the upper endv of said stitches K. The

above resultsare obtained without disturbi g 01" changing-the trunk length which has by experience given the best results and most comfortable fitin any given. size of garment,'or in other words the crotch is not creased dimensions jaiid the bunching of material resulting from such a proceedingis' consequently entirely avoided. -In addition to theaboveit will be. seen that when thegarment is worn and even when the front portion thereof is opened the flap I, particularly at the crotch will at all times be 9 each otherIaft-thefront' the'gar'mentis rovided atthe'front crotch region with two opening located side "by side, In 1801118 cases the stitches; G may be crotch garment are thus secured without interposed between the wearer and'hi'sjouter.

garment. All .tlieadvantagesjof-a closed sacrificing any of the advantages which an ppen crotch garment may have By extendng the front and posterior openings'beyo nd from c nin -awe; seaw ed dimensions: t

I having its opposite ends iornittedand the;

Various changes in the specific construction shown and described may be made Wlthin the scope of the claims without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim: 1. An undergarment haying a. nently (closed crotch "and a front extendingdownwandly from the neck opening-tea point adjacent to the crotch, and a rmaposterior opening extending from a point.

near the waist line at the rear to-a-,po1nt abo've' the crotch in front and""above the lower end of"s'tiid frbnt opening.

'2. A union suit having a front opening from the neck to a" point adjacent-'-to"the crotch,"ti1'e fabric ftfrniing the edg'e s' ofsaid opening bein permanently "united in the crotch and as'econd'opening extending frc'tn the waistline at the "rear 'td a 'point at-"the frontof the garment nearer the neckthan the crotch and a flapa-dapte'd tocoverrsaid second opening.

332th --und'erfgarinent having "a perinanentl'y closed crotch and d front opening extending'adjacent thereto, and a posterior opening extendingficm a'- po1nt near the waist'line at the rear to a point above the crotch at the front, so that the two openingsextendone' "beyond the other at the front of the garment, afiap for covering said posterior opening havingits' oneend secured in said garment ad aCent to the waist line at'the rear and its other end 10- cated adjacent 'to'fthe terminating end of said posterior op'eningat the front of'the garment and "a row of stitches inclined ownwardly relatively to said front .oper'iing for securing said other end ofsaid' flap in'the garment. a Y

4. An underga'rr'nent" having a permanently closed crotch,- a front openingextending downwardly from the neck opening'jto a pointbelow the waist line, aposterior opening extendingfrom a point near the e l waist line atthe rear toa point above the crotch at the front" of-the' garment and a flap for covering saidposterior openi'ng and one "edge sec red in the garment and itsothe'r edge free,

saidffree' edge of said flap extending to. pointat the v .crotehf and oufiof longitudinal alinement with said fr'ont opening. f po "5. Anmndergarment having a perinanently closed-j crotch and a front opening exfront of the garment above the jtending downwardlyfrom thef-nck opening toa'-pointbe1 w"'the waistli a P er opening extending from a, point near the waistline at the rear to a point above the crotchat the front of the garment,'-ltl 1etwo openings being out of: longitudinal "slin ment at thegfront ofthe garment, a fla'p"="for' covering-said posterior opening, having its one end secured-in said garmentjadj'acent to the waistline at the I rear and its other end i3} located ad] said posterior opening at the front of the Witnesses. garment and a row of stitches inclined' I MILTON S. ERLANGER acent to-the'terminoting end of my hand in tho presence of two subscribing downwardly relatively to said front open- 5 ing for securing said other end of said flap Witnessesz. r in said garment at the front thereof. V JOHN A. KEHLENBECK,

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set- G. V. RASMUSSEN: 

